DRCLAS-Brazil-list March 2010

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Brazil Related Events at Harvard and MIT

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*Rio de Janeiro's Financial Strategy Prior 2016* A presentation by Mr. *Joaquim Levy*, State Finance Secretary for Rio de Janeiro Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy, Finance Secretary for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has been in charge of optimizing Rio's resources alongside Governor Sergio Cabral since 2006. Before his appointment by the governor, Mr. Levy was the Finance and Management Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to exercising the VP position at IDB, he was Brazil's National Treasure Secretary, chief-economist of the Planning Ministry and sub-secretary of Economic Policy for the Finance Ministry under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Levy holds a B.A. in engineering, a Masters Degree in Economics from Brazil's Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Date: *Thursday, April 1, 2010* Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Taubmann 275 (Harvard Kennedy School) Contact: Pedro Henrique Fernandes (pedro_henrique_fernandes(a)hks11.harvard.edu) and Marcus Schalch (marcus_schalch(a)hks10.harvard.edu) Sponsored by the /Brasil Initiative at Harvard/ and Marcus Schalch ___________________ MIT-Brazil Presents *After Lula, who - and what?: The outlook for the October 2010 elections in Brazil* *Paulo Sotero*, Journalist & Director: Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars On Sunday October 3rd, Brazil will hold its sixth consecutive presidential and general elections since the reinstatement of democracy in 1985 - and the first that won't feature Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a candidate. Approximately 130 million Brazilians, or two thirds of the country's population, are eligible to vote. This year, they will also choose the governors of 26 states and the federal district of Brasília, 513 federal deputies, 54 senators (two thirds of the total) and 1,057 delegates to the 27 state assemblies. Paulo Sotero, a journalist and Director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington DC, will talk about the dynamics of the elections and offer perspectives on issues and factors likely to influence voter's choices. Date: *Thursday, April 8, 2010* Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm Location: E53-482 (MIT) __________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Brazil Studies Program Conversa on Scientific Expeditions - TODAY

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*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* *Scientific Expeditions to Brazil* A Conversa with *David Grann*, Staff writer for The New Yorker. Author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon *Neil Safier*, Professor of History, University of British Columbia. Author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America Moderated by *Jean-Philippe Belleau*, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at Harvard. Date: *Thursday, March 25 - TODAY* Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM Location: CGIS South Building S-050 Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu __________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Brazilian Film Screening - Hour of the Star - Tonight

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Brazil Related Events at Harvard

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*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* Brazilian Film Series *Hour of the Star *(1985) Directed by Suzana Amaral After the death of her aunt, Macabéa moves from the Brazilian countryside to the big city in hopes of escaping economic and social poverty. Once there she finds a job, but soon loses it due to her lack of education and hygiene, and has to live in a small room in a boarding house with other women in the same condition. A fortune teller promises that Macabéa will meet a tall, blond and rich man who will fall in love with her and take her away from poverty. But once again, reality is crueler than Macabéa had imagined. Date: *Tuesday, March 23* Time: 6:00-8:00pm Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu ___________________ *Scientific Expeditions to Brazil* A Conversa with *David Grann*, Staff writer for The New Yorker. Author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon *Neil Safier*, Professor of History, University of British Columbia. Author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America Moderated by *Jean-Philippe Belleau*, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at Harvard. Date: *Thursday, March 25* Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM Location: CGIS South Building S-050 Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu __________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Upcoming Brazil Related Events at Harvard

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*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* *Living with Retroviral Infections: Lessons from Brazil* Speakers: *Maria Amelia Veras*, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science, Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brazil *Vera Paiva*, Associate Professor, Department of Social Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil *Aluisio Segurado*, Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil The speakers will discuss the following topics: AIDS in Brazil: Overview of the epidemic and the country's response; Psychosocial aspects of the Brazilian response to HIV/AIDS; HTLV infection in Brazil: challenges for prevention and care Date: *Tuesday, March 16 - TOMORROW* Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm Location: Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston Website: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/retroviral_infections_03-2010 This event was made possible thanks to support from the Banco Santander Faculty Grant Fund and the Coolidge First-step Fund at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. ________________ Brazilian Film Series *Hour of the Star *(1985) Directed by Suzana Amaral After the death of her aunt, Macabéa moves from the Brazilian countryside to the big city in hopes of escaping economic and social poverty. Once there she finds a job, but soon loses it due to her lack of education and hygiene, and has to live in a small room in a boarding house with other women in the same condition. A fortune teller promises that Macabéa will meet a tall, blond and rich man who will fall in love with her and take her away from poverty. But once again, reality is crueler than Macabéa had imagined. Date: *Tuesday, March 23* Time: 6:00-8:00pm Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu ___________________ *Scientific Expeditions to Brazil* A Conversa with *David Grann*, Staff writer for The New Yorker. Author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon *Neil Safier*, Professor of History, University of British Columbia. Author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America Date: *Thursday, March 25* Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM Location: CGIS South Building S-050 Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu __________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon - Today at 5pm

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*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* * Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon* Presentation and Commentary by *Arnóbio "Binho" Marques*, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Jorge Viana*, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Roberto Mangabeira Unger*, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government *John Briscoe*, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country Director for Brazil *Wednesday, March 10 - TODAY* 5:00-7:00pm Science Center, Lecture Hall D 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Harvard University Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard University Center for the Environment ____________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon - March 10 at 5pm

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*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* * Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon* Presentation and Commentary by *Arnóbio "Binho" Marques*, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Jorge Viana*, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Roberto Mangabeira Unger*, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government *John Briscoe*, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country Director for Brazil *Wednesday, March 10* 5:00-7:00pm Science Center, Lecture Hall D 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Harvard University Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard University Center for the Environment ____________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Upcoming Brazil Related Events at Harvard

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*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* * Brazilian Film Series* *Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures *(2005) Directed by Marcelo Gomes To distance himself from Adolf Hitler and a war he philosophically opposes, a young German moves halfway around the world to Brazil, where he meets a hitchhiker with his own motivations to keep moving. Together, they drive across the country making pit stops in various villages to sell the locals a "miracle" drug. Marcelo Gomes directs this multilingual Cannes Film Festival selection. *Tuesday, March 2 - TODAY* 6:00-8:00pm TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu ______________________ *Brazil's Report Card on Education: Overcoming inertia?* Presentation by *Fernando Reimers*, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program *Paula Louzano*, Lemann Foundation The report cards on education are an initiative of PREAL (Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas) and have been published in nine countries of Latin and Central America. Lemann Foundation was Preal's partner on this initiative and has just released the 1st Brazilian document: Brazil's Report Card on Education: overcoming inertia? released in December 2009. The report cards monitor the evolution of educational indicators and the implementation of public policies considered crucial to the development of education. Out of the nine aspects covered by the Report Card on Education: Overcoming Inertia? (enrollment, frequency, performance, equity, educational standards, evaluation systems, among others) Brazil scored "regular" or "unsatisfactory" in seven of them. The Report Card has also shown that there is no consensus about the question asked in the document's title: "Overcoming inertia?" For most topics, although specialists recognize recent progresses, they don't see clear evidences that Brazil is moving forward. *Wednesday, March 3 - TOMORROW* 12:00-2:00pm CGIS South Building S-030 1730 Cambridge Street Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS, the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and LACE (Latin American and Caribbean Education Network in GSE) ______________________ * Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon* Presentation and Commentary by *Arnóbio "Binho" Marques*, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Jorge Viana*, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Roberto Mangabeira Unger*, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government *John Briscoe*, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country Director for Brazil *Wednesday, March 10* 5:00-7:00pm Science Center, Lecture Hall D 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Harvard University Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard University Center for the Environment ____________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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Upcoming Brazil Related Events at Harvard

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program - Brazil-related events, conferences, research, classes and cultural activities.

*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* * Brazilian Film Series* *Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures *(2005) Directed by Marcelo Gomes To distance himself from Adolf Hitler and a war he philosophically opposes, a young German moves halfway around the world to Brazil, where he meets a hitchhiker with his own motivations to keep moving. Together, they drive across the country making pit stops in various villages to sell the locals a "miracle" drug. Marcelo Gomes directs this multilingual Cannes Film Festival selection. *Tuesday, March 2* 6:00-8:00pm TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu ______________________ *Brazil's Report Card on Education: Overcoming inertia?* Presentation by *Fernando Reimers*, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program *Paula Louzano*, Lemann Foundation The report cards on education are an initiative of PREAL (Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas) and have been published in nine countries of Latin and Central America. Lemann Foundation was Preal's partner on this initiative and has just released the 1st Brazilian document: Brazil's Report Card on Education: overcoming inertia? released in December 2009. The report cards monitor the evolution of educational indicators and the implementation of public policies considered crucial to the development of education. Out of the nine aspects covered by the Report Card on Education: Overcoming Inertia? (enrollment, frequency, performance, equity, educational standards, evaluation systems, among others) Brazil scored "regular" or "unsatisfactory" in seven of them. The Report Card has also shown that there is no consensus about the question asked in the document's title: "Overcoming inertia?" For most topics, although specialists recognize recent progresses, they don't see clear evidences that Brazil is moving forward. *Wednesday, March 3* 12:00-2:00pm CGIS South Building S-030 1730 Cambridge Street Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS, the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and LACE (Latin American and Caribbean Education Network in GSE) ______________________ * Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon* Presentation and Commentary by *Arnóbio "Binho" Marques*, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Jorge Viana*, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil *Roberto Mangabeira Unger*, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government *John Briscoe*, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country Director for Brazil *Wednesday, March 10* 5:00-7:00pm Science Center, Lecture Hall D 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Harvard University Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard University Center for the Environment ____________________ FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events

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DRCLAS-Brazil-list March 2010